IT: Protests in Latin America highlight a femicide crisis, and... 📱Do you support a ban on TikTok?

Welcome to Monday, March 13th, readers and writers...

Protests in South America are highlighting a crisis of femicide and gender-based violence.

Protests against femicide, oppression, restrictive abortion rights, pay disparities, and gender-based violence erupted across Latin America and the Caribbean on International Women's Day. Last year, 4,473 women in Latin America were killed because of their gender.

Should the U.S. be doing more to help fight against gender-based violence?

Top bills: March 6-10

Each week, Causes.com updates the most-viewed bills and resolutions in Congress. 

Causes.com provides a video summary, text summary, link to the full bill, and ways to Contact Your Reps. Take action now: Tell them if you SUPPORT or OPPOSE this popular legislation.

Contact Your Reps about these popular bills & resolutions

Transgender youth are experiencing a mental health crisis

In 2021, the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ youth crisis organization, found that 25% of the 1,717 Black transgender and nonbinary youth they interviewed had attempted suicide in the past year. Only 13% reported having a supportive home environment.

Speak out against anti-trans bills. Contact your Representatives now

RESTRICT Bill: Banning TikTok?

The bill would give the administration the capacity to ban Chinese-owned TikTok and any foreign-based technologies that pose a risk to national security. 

Do you support a ban on TikTok?

New railroad by the Colorado River raises concerns over the environment and public health

A newly proposed Uinta oil railroad is to be built alongside the Colorado River in Utah, which many say will threaten the health of the surrounding environment and millions of Americans in the region. 

Do you support or oppose the newly proposed Uinta railroad?

All the Memes Fit to Post

And, in the End...

National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day. Who is worried about a touch of bad luck? Not you, you wild nonconformist icon!

—Emma Kansiz 

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